Word: stints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...politics at 14, when he served as a page in the Texas legislature Homer worked his way through the University of Texas Law School as a deputy sheriff. He was elected to the state legislature in 1936, later became Travis County district attorney. After a 3½-year wartime stint in Naval intelligence, during which he rose to lieutenant commander, Thornberry opened his own law practice, served on the Austin city council and as mayor pro tem. The nonpaying city post wound up costing him money, for Homer's law clients expected him to fix such things...
Finally, a few weeks ago, after the Eastern Sprints, it was learned that lightweight crew coach Bo Anderson would quit after this summer's European adventure to devote more time to his graduate studies. Anderson went undefeated against collegiate competition in his two year stint on the Charles...
...into New York, he thrust aside resident Democratic aspirants to take on Republican Senator Kenneth Keating. The avuncular, popular incumbent accused the Kennedy people of distorting his record, and the nonpartisan Fair Campaign Practices Committee sided with Keating. It seemed of a piece with Kennedy's background: his brief stint with Joe McCarthy; the prosecutor's mentality and Sicilian yen for vendetta; the management of Jack's 1960 campaign, in which lovable Hubert Humphrey had been driven from the race and humiliated. Now, in New York, "carpetbagging" and dirty pool. But he went on to win, and to capture uneasy...
...Shooter. Nixon, as behooves the man out in front, reserved his ammunition for the Democrats. In a rather leisurely two-day stint in Nebraska, where in this week's primary he faced opposition from Ronald Reagan (who was on the ballot) and Rockefeller (who was not). Nixon aimed a P-Shooter at Eugene McCarthy, Robert Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey: "three peas in a pod, prisoners of the policies of the past." And in a 6,000-word formal statement, he attacked the Johnson Administration for failing to reverse the rising crime rate. Nixon proposed a broad program aimed...
President Morse, a Boston-born physicist and onetime Brown University dean, had been president of Case Institute since 1966, a job he assumed after a two-year stint as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Development. (Western Reserve's longtime president, John S. Millis, 64, became the new university's first chancellor.) In his new post, Morse expects the school to continue expanding, but he believes that the school can best upgrade itself by "building from strengths we now have." Eventually, Morse hopes, those strengths can make Case Western Reserve a Midwestern rival to Caltech...